From the course: Construction Management: Modular Construction Methods

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An industry perspective

An industry perspective

- Now that we have a basic definition of what I'll cover in this course and I've given you a few examples of use cases, I thought it would be helpful to take a look at one company's take on what this all means and how they have embraced these concepts. Digital Building Components or DBC is a modular prefabrication company based here in my home State of Arizona. This company was started as a spinoff of a large national general contractor who sees a significant future in this concept. I sat down with one of the leaders at DBC and she gave us a great overview of their operations and goals. - My name is Jenn Hawkins. I lead the design and products group here. The group is really focused on rethinking standard construction details for factory production. So we're interested in taking a design for manufacturing approach to how we design our products, which includes how we engineer them, how we think about the logistics of…

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